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WEB5 days ago · Asheville Watchdog’s 2023 series Selling Asheville was honored Wednesday with an Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism by the Institute for Nonprofit News at its annual awards ceremony in Atlanta. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and Watchdog co-founder Sally Kestin conceived the four …
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WEBAsheville Watchdog is a free, local, not-for-profit, nonpartisan news organization. It was founded in 2020 as a public service by veteran professional journalists and media executives living in and around Asheville, North Carolina. Most members of the staff are volunteers. Our operations are supported entirely by contributions from the community. We believe that high-quality, independent local ...
Conditions at Asheville's Mission Hospital pose ... - Asheville …
WEBJan 12, 2024 · Mission Hospital risks losing Medicare and Medicaid funding because of deficiencies in care that were so severe, state inspectors concluded last month, that they “posed immediate jeopardy to patients’ health and safety,” Asheville Watchdog has learned. “Immediate jeopardy” is the most serious deficiency possible for a hospital. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human […]
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WEBWestern North Carolina attracts highly accomplished people of all backgrounds, including award-winning journalists from some of the world’s leading news organizations. Volunteers are indicated with (V), designating those who donate their time supporting local journalism as a community service. The News Team Sally Kestin, investigative reporter, co-founder (V)Former investigative reporter at ...
A future killer slipped through Buncombe's legal system, despite …
WEBAug 19, 2024 · The man responsible for one of the worst crime sprees in recent western North Carolina history slipped through the criminal justice system multiple times over 15 months, despite arrests for attempted murder, assault, and shooting a sheriff’s deputy, and numerous warnings that he may have been in violation of his pretrial release conditions, records show. […]
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Answer Man: What really sank the Project Aspire deal?
WEBAug 23, 2024 · The First Baptist Church of Asheville, at Oak and Woodfin streets, is the historic centerpiece of Project Aspire, a planned urban village in partnership with the YMCA of Western North Carolina and The Furman Co. of Greenville, S.C. The project is effectively dead because of the city's and county's concerns over ongoing costs to taxpayers.
More than half of Mission's remaining staff neurologists say they …
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Three staff neurologists are leaving Mission Hospital by the end of September, potentially leaving only two to provide critical care to hundreds of patients at the Asheville flagship hospital and across western North Carolina, including many who have suffered strokes. The departing physicians are neurohospitalists, specialists who treat patients in the hospital who are suffering […]
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$650M Pratt & Whitney plant opens in South Asheville
WEBNov 16, 2022 · With attendance from Gov. Roy Cooper, numerous company officials and a slew of local politicians and business leaders, the mammoth 1.2 million-square-foot Pratt & Whitney plant held an opening ceremony Nov. 16 in South Asheville. The $650 million plant, billed as “transformative” for the region, eventually will employ 800 people with an ...